Alice Brooks experienced inequality on the basis of her race and her sex. In her autobiography, A Dream Deferred, she recalls the reaction of her father when she brought up the idea of college to him: I found a scholarship for veterans' children and asked my father to sign and furnish proof that he was a veteran. He refused and told me that I was only going to get married and have babies. ... Not only was I not going to get any help, I was also tagged as selfish because I wanted to go to college. ... Alice Brooks is a very courageous woman; seemingly able to ov...

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Abstract The research question of my extended essay is "How patriarchal and colonial oppression is expressed in Alice Walker's "The Color Purple?" ... Written in the backdrop of the 20th century American patriarchal society is the epistolary novel 'The Color Purple' by Alice Walker. Alice Walker likes to call herself a 'womanist'3 writer, which as described by her is a 'feminist of color or a black feminist'. ... The term 'womanist' was coined and was first used by the poet and author Alice Walker. ... Alice Walker's The Color Purple ...

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Alice Walker takes on a feminist tone in The Color Purple, a novel about the struggles between salvation and independence in which she discusses the oppression of black women. ... Harpo, her husband, often goes to his father and asks him how to make Sofia listen to him. ... ___'s house, she goes to Africa with a family of Christian missionaries. ... She finds strength in Shug, which keeps her from going back to Mr. ___ as his wife, but instead returns as his equal friend. ... Alice Walker contrasts the ugliness of men with the healthy bondage of women to discuss the frustration of bla...

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In Alice Munro's "Boys and Girls" she tells a story about a girl coming of age and lacking identity in an environment filled with gender role stereotypes which are further enforced by the society she lives in. ... " And when she asked questions the grandmother would reply "That's none of a girls business.... The day the narrator's father is going to shoot Mack, who is the horse to be used as feed for the foxes; she wants to see how it happens. ... Henry and the father get into the truck to chase Flora down, on the way out of the gate Laird, once again, is ye...

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The mayor's wife asks Sofia to work for her, and be her maid. ... The females stuck together through everything and that's what gave Celie strength to keep going in life. ... Celie starts to make pants and she makes them for anyone that asks. ... Everyone goes through a struggle in life to get where they want to be. Ask yourself if you really know who you are? ...

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In 1916, during a trial where prostitutes were being tried, two women were asked to leave the court room because the men said that the testimony was "not fit for the ears of ladies-. ... Similar cases happened in Alice Jamieson's, also a magistrate, court and thus began the "Persons Case-. ... Leaders who are not afraid to be called names and who are willing to go out and fight. ... In 1919 she became the president of the Federates Women's Institutes of Canada and their first request was to ask Prime Minister Borden to allow for women to be appointed for Senate. ... Their petition...

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"As a film about the way in which unlikely and innocent people can be caught in a catch-22 with the law, Thelma and Louise asks viewers to consider what they would do if caught in a situation like that- (Sturken, 2000: 18). ... Also, even though the audience agrees with Thelma in the beginning that they should just go to the cops, it is difficult for audience members to know what exactly they would do in that situation. ... Going against her mother's advice, she proceeds to bear and raise a son. ...

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